German döner typically is made from lamb, veal or beef, but Slack said he opted for chicken and vegetarian offerings to better mesh with American taste buds.
@honkman - have you been?
PS: H/t @mariacarmen who shared this on Fb & tagged me 
Not yet but will try it out. Would be nice to have some good doner kebab in the states (early attempts in LA didn’t really worked out). First photos look way oversauced and I am not too excited about only chicken
I sometimes choose chicken if the other meat looks sus, but it’s best to just have a trusted döner purveyor.
I realize the fine folks in Oakland can’t be choosers.
I am just surprised that they didn’t also give the option of beef, pork or lamb. In the Bay ares we have a small chain called Nick the Greek which seems to be quite successful as they constantly expand. They have “typical” Greek (meat) plates like you get them in Germany at Greek restaurants and their pork, beef/lamb options are very popular. So I have some doubt that the doner shop owner in Oakland is correct that chicken fits more the American palate (at least here in the Bay area)
But döner kebab would never be pork.
Gyros or souvlaki pita, sure… but that’s not döner kebab.
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I agree, I think it’s just a cost decision. But it’s not encouraging that he’s compromising right out of the gate - he could try lamb and chicken and if the lamb isn’t selling just go with chicken.
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When we lived in Hamburg there were some interesting mixes of Turkish and Greek shops sometimes around Grindelallee (University area) and they also had pork for doner
My experience with donor is in small towns throughout France. Always a safe fast lunch option. I don’t ever having animal source of the meat discussed or considered. I have to wonder how much customer blowback would occur should lamb be the gyro meat. Dressed with garlicky yogurt and harissa, is well grilled lamb negatively discernible?
It’s not like other restaurants in this area don’t serve lamb. Oakland and Berkeley have many restaurants ranging from upscale to mom-n-pop shops which cover many different countries and lamb dishes are very common
That would be gyros. I can’t imagine a Turkish kebab shop selling pork, but happy to be proven wrong 
My first meal when I got back to Paris in 2000, jet lagged and stumbling around, was at a doner stand. They offered me a choice of sauces. One was ketchup. That was the first time I’d ever seen ketchup in a French restaurant. I went with the garlicky white sauce.
OMG I def have never seen that happen at any döner place in Germany! You usually get a choice of yogurt/garlic/sesame/spicy — the spicy one being the only red sauce.
But maybe it’s the French… twist 
on döner? Like their version of tacos?
That should be enough for the owner of that doner stand to lose his/her France citizenship
